The discussion revolves around the idea of creating a URL that automatically redirects to the latest topic in a category, such as https://meta.discourse.org/c/releases/last-topic. mr8 proposes this feature to simplify linking to the most recent release topic without updating the link each time. cpradio questions the use case and clarifies whether ‘latest’ refers to the most recently created topic or the one with the most activity, to which mr8 confirms the former and notes a typo in the title.
Would it be possible to have a URL that would automatically redirect to the last topic in a category?
e.g.:
https://meta.discourse.org/c/releases/last-topic
or
https://meta.discourse.org/c/releases/last
would automatically redirect to (in this case) : https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-1-5/30609 or whatever is the latest topic in that category?
What would be the use case for this? I’m trying to think of reasons why I would want to be redirected to a random topic, as you have no idea really what topic it will take you to.
An example would be linking to topic for the latest/current version of discourse (above example) without having to change the link for each new release. You could simply use the url https://meta.discourse.org/c/releases/last or something like that and always have it go to the most current/latest topic in that category.
So by latest, you mean the last topic created, not necessarily the most recent topic to have activity.
Am I understanding that properly?
As version 1.3 may have a reply after 1.4 is announced. You’d still want to link to go to 1.4’s topic
Yeah, fixed the title to reflect that!